Tina Sheng is the CEO of PalmDrive USA, the North American arm of PalmDrive, an international education and mentorship company. A Stanford-trained educator who grew up in Beijing, she built her career inside Bay Area high schools as an admissions officer, teacher, and college counselor before founding PalmDrive's undergraduate department in 2015. Under her leadership the team has guided hundreds of students into top-20 universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, and helped grow PalmDrive into a venture-backed company serving thousands of students annually.
Khadeejah Nauman is a Karachi-based education professional working as an Executive Associate at ExxelTNR, a higher education consultancy that guides Pakistani students through studying abroad - from admissions and visas to landing in a new country. Trained as a psychologist at Istanbul Bilgi University, she pairs a counselor's read of people with the logistics of moving lives across borders.